Today, November 14, outgoing US President Barack Obama arrives in Greece. Speaking from both the United States and Greece, we call on every partisan of freedom to participate in the night demonstration called for Athens on November 15 / starts from Athens Polytechnic at 17.30 .

It is symbolic that Obama is visiting Greece on his farewell tour. The Balkans have served as a laboratory for neoliberalism and US military interventions since the late 20th century; Greece in particular has undergone a global experiment of crisis management and repression. As war draws closer and closer—Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Turkey—the Balkans are expected to serve Europe and the US as a buffer zone while suffering the same abuse as the periphery.

Now that the pipe dream of universal economic growth has come to an end, giving way to a vista of chaos and climate catastrophe, we can see that the new order will only be stabilized by the empty promises of politicians and the brute force of the police and military: by the ballot and the bullet. The buffer zone is getting smaller and smaller, and the United States is not exempt—the same National Guard sent to Iraq have already been deployed in Baltimore. Now is the time to fight, before the situation grows any worse.

In expressing shock and outrage about the election of Donald Trump, many on the Left have obscured the systemic nature of the problem. By taking action against the Democratic favorite of the US, we show that our opposition is not directed against any particular representative, but against the state and capitalism themselves. In the pleas Clinton and Obama have made for a “peaceful transition of power” to a man they declared unfit to rule, we see the collusion of liberals who would rather preserve the apparatus of the state even in the hands of outright fascists than permit real freedom to emerge.

Indeed, as the candidate of supposed “Hope” and “Change,” Obama not only preserved the structures of power, but persuaded many of the people who are most targeted by the system to invest more faith and resources in those structures—which will now be used to repress them more aggressively than ever. Just as we reject the false solutions of Syriza, we understand that Obama’s reputation as a “good” politician has only made him more dangerous to those he purports to protect. Those who promise a more “inclusive” neoliberalism today pave the way for tomorrow’s fascism.

Obama has deported two and a half million people, as many as all the US Presidents of the 20th century combined—turning Mexico and Central America into a detention center for the population capitalism has no use for. Just as we act in solidarity with those targeted by the so-called “migrant crisis,” a crisis imposed by the borders and wars that are endemic to capitalism, we act against Obama in solidarity with all the people of Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and the world. If we don’t tear down the borders that fence other people out today, who will help us tear down the borders that fence us out tomorrow?

As the first Black President, Obama has served the agenda of those who want to convey the impression that white supremacy is a thing of the past. Yet under his reign, a million Black people have languished in prison while police have murdered Black people in the streets with impunity on a daily basis. Over the past months, we have seen indigenous warriors attacked by the same police for defending the water that gives life to their communities. Inspired by the courageous fighters of Ferguson, Baltimore, Oakland, and Standing Rock, we aim to strike blows against racism, prisons, and police everywhere.

These struggles will not be concluded when Obama leaves Greece, nor when he exits office. As President of the most hegemonic state power of our era, Obama represents the interlaced and mutually reinforcing hierarchies that divide humanity—property, citizenship, gender roles, and every other form of authority—yet he himself is merely a cog in a much greater machine. When he is replaced this coming January, the economic interests that have pulled the strings in his administration will move on to utilizing Donald Trump to the same ends, albeit via a more overtly brutal strategy suitable to these times.

We, too, must update our strategies. Today, fewer and fewer people retain the illusion that voting, party politics, or the state could solve the problems we face. The situation is the same the world over. When we take action against politicians, we must not understand ourselves as engaging in mere protest. We are not simply seeking to obtain leverage by militant means. We are developing forms of self-defense in order to open up liberated spaces in which we can experiment with ways to meet our own needs, directly, rather than being experimented upon.

We have to undertake immediate initiatives to create communities of struggle everywhere—opening spaces and social centers, organizing discussions and demonstrations, liberating public spaces, breaking through apathy and isolation, producing free food, shelter, and culture for all. We have to think freedom and enact emancipation.

The blows we strike in Greece will resonate across the world, from all the other peripheries to the very heart of the United States. Together, let us become ungovernable.

*For international coordination and solidarity in the struggle against global capitalism and the state*

*For anarchy, the perpetual reinvention of our relations in pursuit of freedom*

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Deal me in.

If you have any better idea that clarifies the "seriousness" of your political ideas we would like to hear more from your organised anarchist group and be influenced positively by your activities. Anyway we know that as much as you get involved to the movement as less stupid messages you will write to @news. We believe that anarchism is based on individual liberation and self-organisation of the community, anti-Capitalist and anti-State free initiatives, emancipatory struggle against domination and open expression of ideas - not on fighting against other anarchist groups, no matter where they come from and what anarchist ideas they decide to put in practice. Anyway we believe in Anarchy and we try to put it in practice here and now,.. do you?
Many thousands of people from the social movement in Greece and for all kinds of different anarchist tendencies come every year in the social centre Nosotros in Exarchia and the occupied Self-Organised Free Theater Embros in the centre of Athens (the two spaces that we participate) as also to our events in the public spaces of many different cities, our political talks, assemblies, political and music festivals, book fairs, raves, poetry and theater shows, benefit concerts e.t.c. Many thousands agree with the activities of our group and "take them seriously" otherwise we could not as a 30 people group alone defend the spaces and continue the actions of the collective for 26 years. Of course many people hate our group as they hate also many others. Hate speech is an easy way to do nothing and force others to do nothing also. Hate is also an easy way to create a negative identity, taking no risks to put your own ideas in practice and test them in the difficult sphere of real social activity. We don't know who told you that we throw some great parties, this is true anyway. But, we propose you try find out also all other things we do every year. Anyway the only reason we are doing these actions is to invite you and influence you (positively or negatively) to organize your own group and spread your own ideas and actions against every day life domination, as also against state and capital (not against other anarchist groups- an activity that we find extremely leftist and ridiculous). After 10 days our new international site (under construction now) will give you the opportunity to be better familiar with our group, our ideas and our actions. Until then we propose you to target more powerful enemies than anarchist groups from the other side of the planet.

ha ha! very funny that you assume I m not actually from somewhere close to you because I can actually construct a correct sentence in english! Believe me there is many of us who know what you ve been up to since 2005 at least and no international site you are fabricating will change what I and everyone else at least in athens knows about your non existent "anarchist" group. It s time for the rest of the world to know as well that actually in greece you are non existent in the streets or anywhere else apart from the parties you throw. And we will be back with more of the history if you continue to spout patronizing bullshit and to exploit the movement like you have done in the past and are still trying to do (ie copyrghted material from 2008 if you get what I mean). Easy stuff it seems to play it hardcore to people across the planet that have no clue.

Wow.. nothing like a flaming piece of local-to-global scene drama. When it comes from the Bay it always sounds dumb and obnoxious as fuck but when it's out from the battle-weary shithole that is Athens, this suddenly takes a lot of meaning and intensity all of a sudden.

As in, someone identifying themselves says one thing, and then some anonymous person says some variation on "You're a poseur - I never see you in the streets!"

As far as I know, every radical movement in the West from the time of the Protestant Reformation onwards has had pretty much the same kind of infighting: an intra-Activist split over what the best actions are and who is more genuinely committed and zealous in their actions, and then a secondary split between Critics who say what the activists are doing is dumb and all of the Activists together saying that the Critics are cowards and poseurs. Even the Taoists in China had this kind of split, though theirs was more different from what has happened in the West than the Western ones were from each other.

It goes back to gender physiology, most activists are male with testesterone 'attack the unknown' issues, and females have less attack and more 'nurture and reproduce' tendencies. Exceptions exist since physiological parameters and cultural ethics are diverse influences and cross over between genders into complex organic and binary soups.

To be fair there's objective empirical data which indicates that testosterone exacerbates dominant aggressive behavior but yes, in the context of activism and cowardice, this may not be a relevant quantum psychological issue.

for what its worth, I don't have a dog in this race, but I went to athens and went to an event void organized and it was all right, a discussion. I saw some of them at a demo, too, a couple days after. my read on this comment is that it's scene beef infighting, but with someone who has no courage to identify himself taking shots at a group that does stuff. lots of different groups have conflicts in athens, that's normal.

A bunch of threats never destroyed the system, so please don't pee in my pool. You make threats!? People expect too much from the internet. What ever happened to a nice, eloquent letter? It would probably come off less condescending. Let's find out.